This is an interesting story. It doesn’t come as a surprise. After 8 years of Bush’s dirty tricks, what does one expect.Obama choices for FCC chairman haven’t been very reassuring though.
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Archive for the ‘Ethics & Legal issues’ CategoryNo surprises here. Just that we need to take note. After all Mubarak is a “democrat” by some standards . An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years’ prison for insulting Islam and the president. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egypt blogger jailed for ‘insult’ technorati tags:blogging, freedom, ethics A special edition of The World Debate, one of the BBC’s flagship programmes, will be filmed on Thursday October 26 at the World Congress on Communication for Development in Rome, Italy. Entitled “Is a free media essential for development?” it will be broadcast on BBC World on 28-29 October, as well as made available online. Transmission [...] This one’s for posterity. The Hindu reports that: “Nearly 10 days after the Bombay High Court passed an order banning adult content on movie channels, cable operators here continue to block out nine movie channels. The stand off is a result of the confusion that has arisen following the Court’s ruling in a public interest litigation.” “Adult content” in India [...] India takes on offshoring naysayers “India is under attack from rogue elements within and outside the country, not only in its physical space (think Mumbai), but in cyberspace too. Extensions “.co.in†and “.gov.in†are special targets of hack-attacks, whose number, and intensity, is increasing at a worrying pace,” reads a report from Vandana Gombar in the Business Standard today. CERT-In [...] The government will not be presenting the proposed Broadcasting Bill in the monsoon session of Parliament. The media industry’s concerns have been presented to the government by IMG and the IBF. The citiznens of India don’t seem to figure the consultative process. There’s still time. Govt to address industry concerns on broadcast bill Under attack from the [...] With a site named Indian Online Journalism and there is no rant about the blocking of the 17 websites or inaccessibility of three popular domains. Yes, strange indeed. There is excellent activism going on already. There is no need for duplicating the effort here save to extend a hand of solidarity. The casual manner in which three [...] According to Shivam Vij, the 22-page ban order refers to “sites to be blocked”. If that was the case, the ISPs must have gone for the overkill. Why? But that’s not the fundamental issue. As of this writing many blogs continue to remain out of bounds — typical bureaucratic overkill. One obviously is concerned about hate mongering. The disproportionate noise that fundamentalists of all hues are able to inflict on the online world is evident. There are techno-fundamentalists, of course, who think that blogosphere or cyberspace will somehow filter hate mongering. [...] Rupesh Janve & Khomba Singh report in the Business Standard today that the DoT has asked Hutch, Airtel, Reliance, Idea, Tata and MTNL in Mumbai and Delhi and BSNL in three circles to to discontinue all connections issued without proper verification. According to the report “it raises the prospects of millions of mobile connections being [...] Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi’s diatribe against media owners is not without merit. If the proposed Broadcasting Bill facilitates a discussion on the way the media function, we need to welcome it. Here’s what Susan Crawford thinks about Net Neutrality. She’s a professor at the Cardozo School of Law and on the Board of Directors of ICANN. Trust Andy Carvin to bring up something new and interesting each time he writes: Students Expose Sex Offender Through Wikipedia Research. This is Andy’s post on January 18 but it is still worth recording for posterity at IOJ. From Mrs. Suha Arafat Dear Intending partner, This mail may not be surprising to you if you have been following current events in the international media with reference to the Middle East and Palestine in particular I am Mrs. SUHA ARAFAT, the wife of YASSER ARAFAT, the Palestinian Leader who died recently in Paris. Since his [...] SMS cutting into voice usage, says a study from IDC India. In fact, no surprises here. But the fact that “user[s] sends 6 messages (SMS) in a day and receive 8,” on average, owing essentially to intrusive marketing, is evident. TRAI has to implement punitive measures to curb this annoying strategy by the hordes of [...] A company, Email Data Source Inc’s business it to “analyze, organize, and archive thousands of daily email marketing messages” and, of course, make money by doing that. A headline in The Progressive reads thus: VA Nurse Investigated for “Sedition†for Criticizing Bush. Hallelujah! If public interest is the basis of media reform then the professional and economic independence of media practitioners is a yardstick to measure the scenario. Google’s being demonished for sometime now. This is, of course, a terrible way to start writing. Stating the obvious is simple not good. But when Spiegel Online writes an editorial piece on Google we need to take note, that’s all. Sorry, I was a bit slow on the uptake. Here I refer to a report that appeared in NYT on November 16. |
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